The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SAM JONES is now at the Round Lake camp
meeting ground. in New York, dispensing 800
worth of gospel per day.
THE Empress of Austria recently paid long
and exceedingly pleasant visit to Frau Charlotte
Embden, sister of Heinrich Heine, who lives at
Hamburg
Mrs. MAoKAY has just given her tiny grand
son. the Prince Colonna, a dressing-case gold
mounted and richly incrusted with diamonds
and rubies.
ALFoNzo XIII, of Spain. was year old the
18th of June. On that day he was presented
with a uniform BETTING his rank officer
in the Spanish army.
lola is about 80 publish novel said to
be viler than any he has written heretofore It
is too bad that good shot thinks it worth
while to challenge Zola to a duel
EDGAR W. NYE has brought suit in Chicago
against the Rhodes & Mcclure Publishing Com
pany to recover 500 900 for infringing his copy
right by publishing his Remarks of Bill Nye."
THE bleeding heart is the newest design for
laying on the funeral casket It is large heart
formed of forget me nots. From the centre
falls a spray of crimson roses which droop over
one side of the coffin.
AN emigrant schooner passed through Bur-
lington. Iowa. few days ago, headed east
bea ring large placard:
Farewell to Kansas and Nebraska
We bid you both adieu;
We may emigrate to h some day,
But never back to you.
GEN. ANsoN G. MCCooK Secretary of the
United States Senate. is hobnobbing with
Governor Van Zandt. of Rhode Island; and ex-
Governor Rice, of Massachusetts, at Richfeld
Springs It is interesting fact not generally
known that General McCook is only the eighth
Secretary of the Senate since the foundation OF
the government.
AT the Goodwood races the Prince of Wales
wore black sack coat made of rough cloth. gray
trousers, white overgaiters. white cravat tied
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pair of yellow kid gloves and gray Derby
hat He carried a with silver handle
Altogether the costume as much more becom-
ing than the Admirals uniform he wore at the
Spithead naval review.
ACCORDING to recent researches, the earliest
known ancestor of Goethe was Joachim Goethe
a municipal councillor of Sangershausen, whose
name often appears in the records of that town
for the years 1857 1647. His last direct male
descendant was Walter Wclfgane Goethe
of the eighth generation. who died in 1885,
Literal branches of the family still flourish
numerously at and about Sangershausen.
IRA Blu BAN Gu SIN, Chinese graduate of
Yale in the class '7s recently visited Saratoga.
He is a Hong Kong tea merchant. has about
As. 900 acres of tea under cultivation. and en-
ploys f. 900 coolies He is of medium height,
ana has dispensed with his queue. In CONVEX
satlon he is most interesting, speaking perfect
English. He remained but short time at
Saratoga, and is now his way Hong Kong.
A WRITER in the New York Tribune says:
'.In Ecclesiastes. Chap. ii, s, Solomon
says: I got men singers. and women singers.
and musical instruments of all sorts; and. be-
hold. all vanity and vexation of spirit.
From this il is evident that Solomon came to
grief trying to run national opera company.
He could manage 300 wives, 700 concubines, and
the Queen of Sheba, but the opera too much
for him."
MRS JEANETTE NJ. THURBER whose name is
known all over the country in connection with
the National Opera Company, is a handsome
brunette with large hazel eyes and dazzling
teeth. She wears her hair combed high off her
forehead in the style known that of La
Pompadour Her skirts like the skirts of
any other womsns dress. but she wears coat